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Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
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Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
You are making the argument that Laura cannot be world class in the 400m.
The thread topic is which is Laura's best event, the 800m or the 400m! not whether she can be an Olympic medalist in the the 400m.
What is your argument that she is better at 800m than at 400m?
That she can't run as fast as SRR?!
Gimme a break! By that yardstick there should only be about 10 or 15 women in the entire world running the 400, and the rest should move up to the 800m????!!!!
And just for the record, blazing short sprint speed is not a pre-requiste to a fast 400m.
Case in point, Jeremy Wariner.
He is certainly not a short sprint blazer, but he is certainly a great 400m runner.
And by the way, 9th fastest HSer in the country is well beyond 'ordinary' speed in the 400m.
But I know, you never said her speed was 'ordinary' ....again! ;p
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
For the record, her HS bests were 11.97 (1.5w) and 24.01 (nwi) and 24.51 (0.5w) and 400m 53.25
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Why do you think they are right?
You haven't given any arguments to support your position.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
In this corner we have experts that are winning multiple national championships and who are pretty high up the pay-grade structure for the sport. They see these athletes for many, many hours and their reputations depend on how well they do their job.
In this other corner we have some unknown internet posters who don't have a nickle in the game, do not have close personal knowledge of the athlete and the training and who think that an athlete that is much further up the rankings in event A should be in event B, which she is also pretty good at (it is the next event on the distance progression, so no surprise there), where if she had only been trained in that area as her primary area would be at a higher national ranking. And she ran those events enough to win a dozen gold medals.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Part II
I do not have to produce the arguments, that is up to you to swim against the tide of the facts of the case and, while a number of points have indeed been made, I do not find them convincing (I do think that there is as much as a 25% chance that she could be better at the 400 [not quite what I have been painted as asserting] but virtually zero likelihood at anything shorter, but in most of those 'outcomes' the implications are that she is not so very good at the 800 rather than she is spectacularly successful at the 400, in which it is sort of a moot point in terms of being an athlete of world interest.
[Furthermore, citing a PR of 11.90 without stating it was 6.1mps wind (and at medium, Lausanne-like altitude) makes it seem like facts are being used rather loosely.]
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
55.76 ('08)
55.10 ('09)
53.25/52.2r ('10)
51.45r ('11)
52.8r ('12)
2:03.08 ('08)
2:06.20 ('09)
2:04.34 ('10)
2:03.12 ('11)
2:05.13 ('12)
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Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
She ran 2:03.12 in 2011 in the NCAA West Regional.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Yes, those marks were run when she was 18 1/2 at the end of her senior year. But Preston on several occasions used 11.90, 24.30, and 53.25 as evidence in his argument that Laura had more speed at age 16 than Ashley Spencer and most other elite US sprinters. Two of the marks he used as proof were heavily wind aided, and the third mark (53.25) wasn't accomplished until Laura was well over 18, so to be fair I felt that his quotes below required clarification.
"Show me where spencer had 11.90/24.30/53.25 "wheels" at age 16?"
"Would you say that shorter sprints were too fast for her at age 16 when she ran 11.90, 24.30 and 53.25?"
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
The University of Oregon official athletics website lists some of those marks as her bests (see below). So I'm sure he would assume they were legal marks. I did.
Anyway, the point he was making is that she is fast. Whereas, mr. marathon says she is not.
"A four-time All-American as a freshman, including anchoring the record-setting 4x400 meter relay team at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (3:28.18). ......
Personal: Major is psychology. Last name is pronounced RACE-ler
Personal Bests
100 Meters - 11.90,
North Dakota State Meet,
Bismark, N.D., 5/23/08
200 Meters - 24.01,
BCS/CHS Invite,
Bismark, N.D., 4/23/10
400 Meters - 53.25,
North Dakota State Meet,
Bismark, N.D., 5/29/10
800 Meters - 2:03.08,
Jim Bush Invitational,
Los Angeles, Calif., 6/7/08"
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Jacksf and Preston seem to consistently misread parts of my posts. I did not say that she is not fast. I said she is not fast for a sprinter (she gets more 'ordinary' as the distance gets shorter, being best at 400). She has very good speed for an 800 runner, like Jelimo and Vessey. Calling a 24.2/11.2 sprinter "fast" seems to me to be stretching the term a bit.
I gave an indication using the NCAA list (which unfortunately is overly affected by including athletes fastest mark, whether wind-aided or not) and where her 'basic' times fall in that listing (under rates her because her times are at basic but not those on the list, however, essentially all the athletes listed well above her, e.g. the top 300+ for the 100, would have 'basic' times that are ahead of hers, so would still be ahead of her marks on the list).
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
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What I saw was the her 100 times was > 500th, the 200 mark, much higher (~325?), the 400 time around 50th and the 800 mark about 11th (or 3rd?). Clearly, she moved up the list systematically until the 800. Sure, training has something to do with that, but the gradient is so steep that it seems unlikely that she should be in the sprinter category, with the possible exception of the 400.
However, I also indicated that if it is "true" that the 400 is her 'best' distance, it is as much because her 800 did not have as much upside and so she was not a world-class athlete. Conversely, the 75% that I attached to her likelihood of being better included some non-trivial likelihood of being pretty good.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Having nothing to do with the current debate, but allow me to issue a blanket warning that trusting any "official" school site (even one has high-end as Oregon's) will more often than not lead you down a rosy path.
These sites are not put together/maintained by anybody with any statistical expertise in the sport and things like wind readings basically don't exist to SIDs (particularly now that the NCAA itself is so laissez-faire in that department when it comes to Q marks).
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
I quoted 11.90 and 24.01 and both are wind-aided. But that's IRRELEVANT! Most high school times are not IAAF official; it would STILL put Roesler in the top percentile. Let's deal with the 24.30 (or the 11.97) and compare it against other sophomore sprinters who stayed on the sprint path.
-Ashton Purvis, soph '08. 11.89 and 24.31 (NOW: 11.17/22.90)
-Briana Nelson, soph '08. 12.24/24.44 (NOW: 23.63/52.38)
-Brianna Frazier, soph '08. 24.46 (NOW: 52.25)
-Amber Purvis, soph '06, 24.48 (NOW:11.21/22.74/52.80)
-Candace McGrone, soph '06, 11.95/24.36 (NOW: 11.08/22.81)
-Marlena Wesh, soph '07. 12.04/24.26 (NOW: 11.70/23.06/51.43)
-Stacey Ann Smith, senr '08. 11.91/24.12 (NOW: 23.27/52.83)
Hopefully this ENDS the ridiculously illigitimate contention about windy times her sophomore year; suggesting that she wasn't fast enough to be trained as a sprinter! It's not just a red-herring, it's bullshit! She stacks up favorably against her peers at the same relative age!
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
26, you don't know the difference between "speed work" and "sprint training". Look through all my posts and you will see either "trained like a sprinter" or "sprint training"; until you understand the difference YOU WILL ALWAYS BE WRONG and it will be impossible to prove our point to you. (I've always allowed that she could be an 800m runner; you've never allowed that she could have been a sprinter. That's arrogant and foolish!). One other thing: tone down your rhetorical flourishes and you might actually type (even with one arm) what you mean to say.
How many NCAA Champs finals has Roesler been eligible for? How many NCAA finals has she qualified for? How many has she won? I'm not trying to shit on UO coaches here; I'm just saying, and have been saying from the beginning, that if she had begun sprint training she could have been as good as her sprint peers. UO is doing a good job -I've never said they weren't- but this idea that she is DEFINITELY an 800m runner has been a product of the athlete from before she arrived at UO. By comparison, but for conventional wisdom, Usain Bolt would be running some half-hearted 400's right now and the sports attention would be in freefall. SOMETIMES THE BEST COACHES SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE! Roesler IS an 800m runner and that's not difficult to see, and she will eventually run faster, the question will be how much faster for a girl who ran 2:03.08 at age 16! (last year she ran 2:03.12)
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
I should note that you had not been as cavalier on the sprint mark as I ascribed.
Finally, citing athletes that had good but not great sprint marks at 16 but strong marks now is not necessarily relevant to LR. She was posting good times across the board from the time she was in middle school and was a very early developer, not one on a 'normal' schedule.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
When she was a sophomore in high school what would have told you that she had "ZERO LIKELIHOOD AT ANYTHING SHORTER"? I already showed where both Purvis' and McGrone ran under 23 or 11.20. Is that not successful? They're all A-standard marks!
50% of todays' women 400m runners and 400h who can run less than 52 seconds could run 2:08 or better if they trained for it for 2 years and in most cases would pull it off in one - without any material changes in their sprint training. On page 1 of this thread...Monique Hennagan, winner of the 2004 Olympic trials at 400m [she also set the then meet record], won the '96 NCAA 800m in 2:03.27 and got 4th at 400m. Maybe she should have moved up to the 800, but 4th at the Olympic Games and #1 American means that she was damn successful. Her progression below.
100 Metres
(29) - 2005 11.26 0.1
(28) - 2004 11.32 1.1
200 Metres
(29) - 2005 22.87 1.2
(28) - 2004 22.97 0.6
(25) - 2001 23.23 0.0
400 Metres
(29) - 2005 50.24
(28) - 2004 49.56
(27) - 2003 51.46
(26) - 2002 51.04
(25) - 2001 50.98
(24) - 2000 50.82
(23) - 1999 51.05
(22) - 1998 51.11
(18) - 1994 52.25
(16) - 1992 54.19
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
That is a reach! You have NO way of knowing if she was an early developer and I never said she was or wasn't. It is VERY possible, if not likely, that all of her mid-distance/distance training actually retarded her sprint development and had she not run the XC, 800, etc that by her senior year she could have run 11.3...just like Jenna Prandini who ran 11.91 as what? wait for it...a little more... just a bit...ok, i promise, right after this...A sophomore in high school!
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
the classic three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. And I've certainly used all three!
Herewith, my bottom-line "analysis" of Roesler, which ignores every number she has ever recorded. While others "see" it differently, based on every race I've ever seen her run in person (starting with the OT in '08, where she blew me away), she has looked like a classic halfmiler to me, not a sprinter, plain and simple.
I'd like to believe that no matter what the training, elemental speed remains in evidence, and I've never seen her produce anything like that. Great wheels for a half miler, but nothing more than that.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
OK, we simply disagree.
My notion is that in order to be a very good short sprinter, you have to have innate sprint ability that shows itself given much chance, while the longer the distance goes [100=>200=>400] the more the training will affect the athletes relative position on the lists. I just think that LRs marks are too far down the lists at the short end for her to have much chance.
You know a lot more about sprint training and are convinced that she 'could have been a contender' at the short sprints and that it took a lot more specific training than she apparently got.
I still think that from the perspective of 2008 or later most people would have thought that her chances of making the OT Finals in the 100 were less than for the 200, which were less than for the 400, which were less than for the 800, which were (much) greater than for the 1500.
We will never know because now there is little chance we will see her focus on the 100 or even the 200. My guess is that you two are in the minority in thinking she has/had her best top-level potential in the shortest sprints.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
a ps to my note one above: that's my final word on the subject and I'm now outta this one.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Chris Brown was an 800m runner in college. His PB is 44.40. Why was he ever running it? Athletes blossom in asymetric ways and early progress doesn't indicate final destination.
Don't count on me knowing [that much] more about sprinting than you do. I just have more evidence at the ready that I can use to hold up my arguments. Like gh said, "lies and damn lies". But seriously, I DON'T think Roesler's marks are too far down the list at all! That's why I showed you so many other athletes who had the "same" marks as Roesler. The only difference is that those athletes weren't off the charts talented at 800m! If they can be successful sprinting, why couldn't she? I know you can't answer that and that's my point: she COULD HAVE BEEN a sprinter. Would you talk Ashton Eaton into giving up the decathlon if you could coach him to run 9.66 or 12.83?
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Preston has still not submitted a single valid sophomore performance for Laura to try to prove his point that she was a faster sprinter than most other elite 16 year olds. Even the new marks that he chose after it was pointed out that the 11.90 was accompanied by a +6.1 m/s tailwind are still either wind aided (24.30), or marks recorded when Laura was an 18 year old senior, not a 16 year old (11.96 +1.5/53.25). There are many sophomores and freshmen who had markedly faster legal 100m and 200m times than Laura had in 2008, yet Preston doesn't mention them. Yes Laura was/is an extremely talented all around runner, but to say she was as fast or faster than most other elite short sprinters were at age 16 seems to be a bit of an exaggeration. Only one high school athlete in all of America was faster than Laura at 800m in 2008, only 3 in 2009, and again only one in 2010. And the Oregon coaching staff is crazy for using her as an 800 runner?
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
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Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Dear Blue,
1. I never said that Roesler was the fastest person in her sophomore class.
2. I admitted that I unknowingly used windy marks; however, the marks I have are from becca's site athletic.net. She has a 11.90 that you say is windy and becca also has a 12.07! Where did you get your marks from? And, don't just tell me it was windy, PROVE IT! I want to see the finish lynx info. And, while you're at it, verify the marks of the other girls as well.
3. Maybe you're suffering from dehydration or hypoglycemia but Laura WAS one of the best in her age bracket for the 200. I never said she was the best. You would have to be an idiot to believe that top-10 in an event did not signify that you were among the best! That's right, you don't.
4. In 2003 Usain Bolt was #2 in the world at 400m, #1 at 200m and wasn't even on any lists in the 100m. Yet Glen Mills hasn't moved him up to the 400m already? (never mind that the 400m was not a priority for Bolt...wait a minute, it wasn't a priority for Roesler either because she was trying to run the fastest 400m that she possibly could because she was trying to get ready for the Olympic trials 800m - which was her goal from the previous year.)
YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO READ PROPERLY (You've confused my points and others).
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Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Tilastopaja, which I regard as quite authoritative, says the 11.90 was aided by a +6.1 wind. I'd regard that as good enough evidence unless someone can prove it's wrong.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
tandman, we've LOOOOOONNNNGGGGG moved on from the 11.90, but thank you very much.
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What is the matter with you? You question the source and validity of the +6.1 wind reading and then tell tandfman that we've LOOOOOOONNNNGGGG moved on from it when he tries to answer you in the very next post.. Yikes.... And by the way, if you'd have paid attention, you'd have seen that I linked to the 2008 North Dakota Track and Field Championships results page (complete with wind readings) in the SAME post that I first mentioned that the times you were using as proof of Laura's speed as a 16 year old where significantly aided by strong tailwinds.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
No, what is the matter with you? You're trying to say that I have been using info dishonestly when it is YOU that has been doing that. We LOOOOOOONNNNGGG moved away from the 11.90 when it was brought to our attention that it was windy and I pointed out that she also ran 12.07 which is well within the range of the women in her peer group. You quickly pointed out that the 11.90 was windy and provided the link, but we'd moved on from 11.90, but on that VERY SAME page you see that there is a 12.07 but you PURPOSELY don't mention it but want to claim that I'm playing fast and loose with numbers? There is also no wind reading for the 24.30 and until you prove otherwise with a finishlynx verification I can easily go with 12.07/24.30 and my point still holds. Stop being a jackass!
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
You've used erroneous data in just about every post you've posted to try to prove that Laura was among the best short sprinters in her age group. Go back and look at my post where I posted that Laura's 11.90 was aided by a +6.1 wind. Did I not also say that her 12.07 in the final of the same meet was also aided by a wind in the vicinity of +3.2 or something? Maybe I deleted that post, but I could swear that's what I wrote.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
In the vicinity? In the vicinity? You're lying about honest errors and you have the nerve to say "in the vicinity"? And you swear that you wrote it? Grow up! You're johnny come lately and full of piss and vinegar for no good reason but being a jerk. You either come back with the exact info or as far as I'm concerned both times are NWI at best because the same "authenticated" link that had the 6.1 DOES NOT have the 12.07 or the 24.30 as being illegal and neither does Becca's site. You're the one with obvious a hard-on for me because I dared to question if the girl could have been a sprinter. You're the one with the problem!
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WOW!!! LOL. I wrote "in the vicinity" in my last post because I had pick up my friend at work and didn't have time to go back to yesterday's post and look up exact wind info. Now, if you'll chill and go back to page 5 and read what I wrote yesterday and then click on the link from yesterday like you should have done, you'll see this:
"And since you mentioned Laura's high school 11.90, at the North Dakota State Meet in 2008, Laura ran her 11.90 in the prelims, with the benefit of a +6.1 tailwind. She then won the finals in 12.07, with a +3.2 tailwind. Her 24.30 win in the 200 in the same meet was also aided by a +2.3 tailwind. The following year, in 2009, Laura's season bests were 12.41 and 24.66."
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
And I didn't lie about anything. I said you'd been using invalid information to try to prove your point. If it appeared that I was saying that you were purposely distorting the truth, I honestly apologize, because I never meant to imply that it was intentional. Nevertheless, 11.90, 12.07, and 24.30 were all wind aided, and 11.97 +1.5, and 53.25 were run when she was a senior at 18 years of age, not when she was a sophomore at 16.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
This thread has gotten WAY off track -
I started this thread because Laura Roesler was running fast times on the 4x400m relay, but not progressing at the 800m. (look at the 1st post)
I asked if the 400m might not be her better event, since her relay times were getting faster, but her 800m times were not.
I did not ask if she could be an Olympian or world class in the 400m (or the 800m).
I did not ask whether she could run the 100m as fast as Sanya Richards.
I simply proposed that I thought she might be a better 400m runner than an 800m.
Speaking about NOW - her collegiate career - she seems to be equal 400m runner as 800m runner.
But she trains for the 800m, and her times haven't improved since high school.
Meanwhile, her 400m relay times have been getting better.
Let's just drop the conversation about her speed, her HS sprint times. I'm talking about what she is doing and has done in college.
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Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Jacksf, sorry that the thread took this course and that I was a part of it. If information is posted that could be misleading though, I'll generally post a clarification, which is initially all I wanted to do.
At this point I think they should give Laura a little more time in the 8 before deciding she should be doing the 4. She had the second fastest 800m split out of all runners in the 4x8 Championship at Penn in less than ideal conditions (second only to Chanelle Price of Tennessee), and I'm looking forward to seeing what her marks will be like at NCAA's. I have the utmost admiration and respect for her as an elite athlete and as an individual, and had she lost PAC-12's with a 2:05 instead of winning with a SB 2:05 I might be more concerned. Just seems to me that the Oregon staff has to give an athlete who was top 2 in the USA at 800m in high school (not just for one year but for both her sophomore and senior years, and top 5 USA in between) a little more of a chance to try to progress in the event. The one athlete who was ranked ahead of Laura in 2010, Ajee Wilson, hasn't come anywhere near the 2:00.59 split she ran as a high school sophomore in 2010, and currently has a season best of 2:05.19, although she did PR at 2:02.64 last summer in Lille. Anyway, I'm betting that Laura will improve her 800 PR significantly before she leaves Oregon and that she'll eventually place at NCAA's if not more, something that I'm not sure she could do if running the 400.
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That's a heckuva "although". I'm much more impressed with a gold medal at the World Youth Championships than I am with a relay split. I have no reason to think her season's best won't improve before the season's over.
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Having watched Laura run a lot of 800s and 400s (usually as a relay team anchor), I'm still convinced that the 800 is her race; I've just not seen enough 400 speed and as tough a runner as she is, I think her toughness translates better at 800m. Not sure that she's quite ready to break 2:00, but a 2:02 could be in the cards in Des Moines.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Why would you be looking for 400 speed in an 800m runner? She's training for the 800m not the 400m - totally different. Some of you just don't get it: the 8 to the 4 is not like the 200 to the 1, they're completely different and there is no way that you're going to see "400 speed" (I assume you mean turnover) when she's training for the 8.
Getting back to jacksf's point:
-if she trained exclusively for the 400m do I think she could win PAC-12? Yes!
-If she trained exclusively for the 400m do I think she could make the NCAA final? Yes!
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
That may be, but I still think the 800 is her best event.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Before you start accusing people of not getting it, maybe YOU should read Jacksf's original question: Anybody think she should move down to the 400m?
My reply had nothing to do with whether she's training for an 800, a 400 or a 10,000. I simply stated that I hadn't seen enough speed in her 400 relay legs while also stating that her toughness better translated to an 800. I'm not "looking" for 400 speed, just stating what I've seen. I do agree that the 800 and 400 are completely different races but I doubt that there's anyone on this board with an IQ over 90 who would disagree with that.
Re: Which event for Laura Roesler? [split]
Oh come now! You don't know how she's training any more than anybody else here.
Given that the Oregon team trains with a team purpose, and that winning first the Pac-12 and next the NCAA is what it's all about, I'd fall over dead if the anchor of the crucial 4x4 isn't training for the 400 as much as the 800. When she leaves Oregon, then she starts training like an 800 runner.
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Very satisfied with Romeo & Juliette Laser Hair removal. It really works and the results are just amazinggg!
Best Laser Hair Removal in NYC!!! – I am a male 35 with extremely thick, coarse facial hair. I've been going to Romeo & Juliet Laser Hair Removal for a year now. I am proud & happy to say that i am 99% hair free on my entire face thanks to Romeo & Juliet Laser. I paid $1,750 for 6 treatments & 6 touchups. A good price for the excellent results I would come to see. All the people working there were courteous to me & professional. They took really good care of me. My technician Natalie & the owner Chris went out of their way to get me completely hair free. They take great pride in their job. Having been hair free now & not having to shave every morning has taken the stress off my shoulders. I highly recommend Romeo & Juliet to anyone considering laser hair removal. I give them my highest recommendation.
I got what I wanted – I had a laser hair removal package in this place. I had to do my legs 8 times before all hair left but I'm happy with the results so far. The location is great, just next to my office. The staff was very friendly and knowledgeable and they have always time to help you and answer your questions.
A....mazing! That is all you need to know...I LOVE this place...they seriously changed my life. I came here two years ago for bikini and underarms....I had done all my research and even my dermatologist said it is the ONLY place in the city to go. I finally decided to bite the bullet and do it. Yes...I was really scared about of the price. Yes....it's a lot to put down...especially when you don't know if it will work. But It Will! I promise you! I did the session package they recommended....yea I was like it this a ploy to get more money....it's not. The "clean-up" sessions are so worth it - and it makes sure you look perfect all the time! Just do it....you won't be sorry. You can personally hunt me down if you down 100% LOVE this place. After my sessions, by bikini area was PERFECT! I could not believe it....i looked perfect and ready for action at all times....so beautiful! It was all soft and nice - no stubble feeling - nothing but smooth skin! And my armpits were soft and hairless.... So...why two years later and I writing a review? Because I'm back for more, more more! I went back and they are sooo nice - they even remembered me - unheard of customer service in NYC. I only did my side bikini before and now I am doing the FULL Brazilian! No go get hairless....you'll thank me...OK...you'll really thank them :)
I can't say I'd recommend it – I find all these stellar reviews concerning miraculous results very hard to believe. I went there a couple of years ago for treatment on a very hairy back. After $3,000+ spent on about a half dozen painful sessions, I had hoped that my wookie back and shoulders would never plague me again. Well guess what? 2 years later and I feel like I need to start the treatments all over again. And it was only about 6 months -1 year after the treatments ended that I needed to shave regularly again. It was not money well spent.
I see that you are targeting us again with your fraudulent reviews. Our results are not miraculous but TRUE. We have the best experience, lasers, staff and certifications in the industry. I know you can not stand that. You have written quite a few negative reviews on Citysearch against us under different usernames. This is not how you should promote your business. Everyone knows who you are. It is also amazing that you are a Citysearch Advertiser as well. I can see why your business is doing bad.
Can't say enough good things about this place – 32 yr old male,have gone here several times for my neck, chest and thighs. Have seen unreal results in a short amount of time.The staff is so great and knowledgable. Look at their machines and research them yourself and see they only use the best. I say this because when I first went to a plastic surgeon to have this done, I knew nothing. It hurt like hell and the results sucked. I came here and they fixed the patches left behind and then some. A Real life changer. My wife has had her armpits, legs and bikkini done with great results. She shaves like once a month now if that. Please listen to me and go here, do not mess around with the other places. This place has changed my life for the better.
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AWESOME so far! – Just to clarify things--I am not one to write a good review for no reason. I am discriminating and particular. In addition to that, I have never had laser hair removal before, so I was a bit hesitant and worried about the 'pain factor'. I have an olive complexion and sometimes lasering is challenging.
It takes a lot to get my attention, but this place demonstrated EXCELLENT service, has a great staff and top of the line equipment.
When i was researching, I discovered Romeo and Juliette and called the office. I was a bit hesitant to have laser hair removal for many reasons, potential pain was on the top of the list.
I ended up speaking the owner, Chris, who was very informative, friendly, wasn't pushy, and made me feel like this was a good choice for me. He has great credentials, experience and doesn't take his business lightly.
I arrived and the staff was efficient, friendly, helpful and the place is extremely comfortable and well run. My technician, Natalie was great.
So far, I am very pleased. I experienced almost no discomfort whatsoever and look forward to the end results
maybe find another place.. – I originally found Romeo and Juliette from searching on this website. I saw that most of their reviews were positive and quickly made a free consultation appointment.
I have been back a few times at this point but held off for a while before writing my review because my experiences are so different every time.
At first I walked in and didn't even know if it was the right place because it looked so broke down compared to the other places I had been in the area. The desk girls were nice to me and gave me some papers to fill out...while I sat down to fill them out.. I heard a girl (who ended up talking to me for my consultation) getting upset because I guess she had been working all day without breaks, so I almost left because judging from the inside of this place (which is shabby at best) and this poor girl I figured maybe what I had read on this site was fake...but then as soon as they got me in the girl was really nice and answered all my questions. I ended up agreeing to a treatment. I was scared at first because I was afraid of the pain, but it really didn't turn out to be too bad. I guess that is expected when you're lasering your bikini! I paid and everyone was really nice..and then I just left. Just that one treatment made a ton of my hair go away so I was excited to go back.
The second visit was a different story. I walked in and there were people in almost every seat, the place stunk like a bar..and.. people were asking how much longer it was going to be. The poor receptionist girls were just overwhelmed and this older woman was yelling at them. I sat there and waited because I didn't have any more appointments that day and I just listened to this woman repremand these younger receptionist girls like there was no tomorow-one looked like she was going to cry!-that is until the managers cellphone rang and she had to leave her desk to talk on the phone- hah! Anyway I felt really bad for them. I waited for what seemed like forever and listened to all the other people sitting with me complain... but I finally got in after almost 40mins..it was a different girl this time than the last one that treated me but she was really nice and it totally didn't hurt as much when she did it. The only complaint I have during the procedure is that I think the phone rang twice..which I think is really unprofessional. To be honest, my hair is almost gone-that's the reason I'm okay with going back. If I were you I would go check out other places because I assume there are other places in manhattan that would give you good results. The prices are kind of high and they obviously need a new manager and an interior designer!
...Romeo and Juliette's response to my review is proof to how rude they treat their patients. Sorry I wasn't one of the people that day who threw a fit and rescheduled my appointment..and when I wrote an honest review they accuse me of lying. I will not be returning to this place.
We have the best service and results in the industry. We care about our customers. No real customer writes such a review without speaking to the Owner, if they have any issues. I am not aware of any person like yourself and also not aware of anyone waiting 40 minutes in our facility without talking to me. We also suggest that customers check other places as well. We want customers to come to us, because of what we stand for, the lasers we have, our experience, the numerous awards we won and the laser associations we chair and belong to rather than just read reviews that may be true or untrue. By the way, your review says that you came to us a few times but now you say that you only came twice.
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"I'm not going to talk about specifically about any of our scheduled to be unrestricted free agents other than to say it is our policy (and) we think it's a good way to manage the NFL if you're able to retain your own players," Thompson said on Friday here at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. "We'd very much like to do that, and that includes Greg."
Liking to retain Jennings and being able to do so could be two different things. Jennings reportedly is seeking $14 million a season – though a source late Friday afternoon told Packer Report that isn't the case and a deal or franchise tag is possible. Either way, wishing for that much and receiving that much are two different things, as well, especially with a steady salary cap.
However, the Packers have gained significant cap space by releasing Charles Woodson ($9.44 million cap charge), the rollover from last year's cap ($7 million) and the retirement of Jeff Saturday ($3.75 million). That's more than $20 million, though the Packers will use much of that space with hoped-for contract extensions for 2014 free agents-to-be Clay Matthews and B.J. Raji. Those two have a combined cap charge of about $8.4 million this season. It's certainly possible that in-season extensions would at least double that amount.
The Packers entered the offseason about $7 million below the projected salary cap. Now, they'd be about $27 million below. Is that enough for Thompson to check everything off his to-do list?
"I don't think I've ever talked about the cap publicly and I'm not going to start right now," Thompson said. "But good question."
Without Woodson, Donald Driver and Saturday, the Packers have just one player (Ryan Pickett) older than age 30. Coach Mike McCarthy said leadership will have to grow from within to fill those voids.
"You don't replace Charles Woodson, you don't just go out and replace Donald Driver," coach Mike McCarthy said. "I've talked about the type of people they are. Locker room culture is something that I wouldn't say is a moving target but it's something that's either growing or not growing. So, it's important for the leaders and particularly our young guys. Leadership's not always designated by how many years you've been in the league or how good a player you are. There's leadership opportunities for every man in that locker room. It's important for our leadership to grow. We have a very healthy culture in our locker room. It's something we pay close attention to. Charles and Donald are special people, special players, so it's not trying to replace them. It's really putting the energy, the effort, the focus, the education, on the individuals now there for that locker room to grow."
McCarthy rattled off the names of several people, ranging from quarterback Aaron Rodgers to second-year player Randall Cobb, along with offensive linemen Josh Sitton and T.J. Lang, as budding leaders.
-- Jerel Worthy, one of the second-round picks last year, suffered a torn ACL at Minnesota in Week 17. McCarthy said it would be a "stretch" for Worthy to be ready for training camp.
-- Tight end Andrew Quarless, who missed the season after a serious knee injury in 2011, should be ready for offseason practices.
-- Offensive tackle Derek Sherrod, the 2011 first-round pick who broke his leg late in his rookie season and also didn't play in 2012, is in the "training room every, single day," McCarthy said. McCarthy hopes he'll be ready for OTAs, as well.
-- In an effort to get a handle on the read-option scheme that devastated his defense in the playoff game, McCarthy and his defensive staff will spend time working with Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin. The Aggies see plenty of read-option in the SEC.
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-- Thompson has been aggressive in the draft in recent years, including moving up to get Matthews in 2009 and three times in 2012 to collect Worthy, Casey Hayward and Terrell Manning. "Well, you do what you think is best," Thompson said. "We felt like there were value players there last year and we felt like it was worth it. We had done that a couple times in the past and felt like it was worth it then. Historically speaking, we have probably traded back more than we've traded forward. If you can do that, like I said when I always bring up my dad, he's a frugal guy, and from a draft numbers standpoint, that's the better buy if you can still get a good player. You don't want to sacrifice a good player for the sake of gaining another pick somewhere."
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VICTORVILLE • Macy's will hold the grand opening of its Victorville store on March 20, company officials said.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ran on a campaign to fund full-day public preschool for all New York City children through a modest increased income tax on residents making more than $500,000 a year. Although Mayor de Blasio's tax proposal was not approved by the state legislature or supported by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the legislature did approve statewide funding for pre-K that included a $300 million increase for New York City's preschool program.
This means that for the first time fully funded full-day quality preschool will be available for all four-year-olds in the city. New York City is moving forward for children – and it isn't the only major city or and school district making such progress.
The Boston Public Schools system (BPS) offers a full day of prekindergarten to any four-year-old in the district regardless of income, although funding limitations prevent the district from serving all eligible children. BPS ensures the quality of its prekindergarten program through high-quality teachers, professional development delivered through individualized coaching sessions, and evidence-based curricula for early language and literacy and mathematics. Prekindergarten teachers have the same requirements as K-12 teachers in BPS and are paid accordingly. And it's working. A study conducted by researchers at Harvard's Graduate School of Education examined the impact of one year of attendance in the BPS preschool program on children's school readiness and found substantial positive effects on children's literacy, language, mathematics, emotional development, and executive functioning.
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AN arts teacher has drawn upon a childhood dream to learn how to become a fully-qualified commercial pilot.
Steven Nuttall, a member of the arts department at Fearns Community Sports College, has spent £40,000 on 'getting his wings'.
But ever since he went on holiday as a child, and was allowed on the flight deck, he wanted to control his own aircraft.
Now after three years of lessons with Liverpool-based Ravenair, and completing 14 pilot's exams, the 32-year-old can charge for his expertise, after securing his basic licence in 2011.
He has come a long way since he spent many Saturday afternoons watching passenger jets flying and taking off at Manchester Airport.
Mr Nuttall said: "I know how important it is to revise every spare hour if you are determined to succeed. I can now charge for my services.
"The commercial licence allows me to take the plane up for aerial photography, to be used as an air taxi in good weather and aerial survey work."
He has already taken up several staff members at Fearns on free flights.
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And with the Booth Road school's motto being 'Further, Faster, Higher', they can have no complaints regarding Mr Nuttall's extra-curricular activities.
He has also thanked his parents Sally and Bernard for their support - he treated his mother to a trip to Caernarfon.
While the sky's been the limit for his ambitions, his home life has been firmly grounded, as he has ran a cheaper car and curbed any meals out, to pay for his tuition.
Even now he his next goal is to learn how to fly using just his navigation instruments.
That requires another 30 hours in a simulator and 20 flight hours.
And ultimately Mr Nuttall has not ruled out becoming a transatlantic airline pilot.
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Hi. I need help from someone who works with carbon. I have an AX Lightness brake spring that cracked at the 'T' junction. The spring isn't cracked. It's closer to the part that connects to the brake. I don't know much about how it works but it seems to me like this could be patched with a strip of carbon. Does anyone have the ability to do this and would be willing to try?
It's a very small crack. It sort of looks like a tear in the carbon. It's still one piece. It hasn't cracked the whole way thru. It's right at the tip of my thumb in the picture.
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From Minnesotans for Global Warming (h/t iOwnTheWorld)
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Yesterday I posted what Al Gore and his precious global warming manifesto have been reduced to...today I make lemonade with the lemons...
Also, in case you missed it, check out my collection of 34 Photoshops and memes to mock and burst the bubble of global warming alarmists.Add a comment
This is really great stuff from Herman Cain's website...
Also, in case you missed it, check out my collection of 34 Photoshops and memes to mock and burst the bubble of global warming alarmists.
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Found this gem at Reaganite Republican
This would only be better if...wait...I was actually going to type it out, but it just hit me that it would be better as a Photoshop!
Stay tuned (I probably wont get to it until tomorrow thought).
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There's a lot being said about Hillary's "shadow campaign" for president. The "Ready for Hillary" Facebook page is already at 1.5 million "likes."
Here's a couple of graphics they'll never run (but they should)...iOwnTheWorld has one of their own as well, check it out here.
In the coming years there will be plenty more where this came from.Add a comment
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Every year iOwnTheWorld has a contest to determine the best conservative agitprop of the year. Nominating is a total free for all, and then the good people at iOTW sift through the madness and select the best to be voted on round after round until only two are left.
My piece was one of the last two standing:
I had a VERY worthy opponent, in fact I'm such a fan that I actually posted their work recently to this blog (here)
People went to the final and voted on our pieces, and apparently the best man won...
I've been participating in this contest since 2010, and I'm thrilled to share the top honor with BKeyser.
Onward to 2014, being that it's an election year I'm sure we're going to get some really good stuff for next years PUK!Add a comment
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Over the weekend I asked people here and at my social network places to help caption the picture below.
These are what I thought were the 10 best/favorites, in no particular order
The names of the caption "authors" and where I pulled them from are in the bottom left corner.
Thanks for playing guys! (Also, in case you missed it see the captions for a little girl vs. Obama here)
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Now at 40 years old I bought my first property at 37 a
two family home in Springfield gardens queens. I rented to a guy named
George O' Conner and within a few months he moved in his would be girl
(Trudiann Miller)
from a shelter with two kids, at some point she offers to pay rent with
checks from public assistance and for u folks that don't know acceptance
of rent now labels her a tenant , in April of 2013 they stopped paying
rent and had a third child, filing eviction notices and putting the
property up for sale only seemed to have them not want to pay all
together, when his court date arrived in august she showed up in court
and claimed he left and
we had to reserve with her because she paid rent etc...waiting till nov
15 for a court date, in all this mess i found out she and him were
playing the system as he was suppose to be paying child support and also
she was not suppose to be living with him ...even after filing
retraining orders etc etc, the tenants below her was the same story
except I
knew that guy Hugh Godfrey for ten years....moved in his girl and two
kids as well when they could not pay as well since april they did not
ever until they left in November after a court date appearance in august
when they agreed to leave, to make a long story short there was someone
living in the basement and they came up with a devised plan to use it
in court as a defense not to pay.The one thing they didn't count on was I
took them to court for withholding and not for payments as they would
only buy time and repeat. All these people seem to put themselves in not
only financial places they shouldn't be but bring people and kids in
places they can't afford, how would one keep a place and pay a mortgage
for almost an entire place for others to stay calling you to repair
things that I did all the work myself making sure they had heat and
lights which were paid by me for the three years free of charge with no
regards for if I lost the place or not, I still have my place on the
market & is skeptical about selling as I have a great deal.A friend
from work asked to rent it from me the now ripple effect these things
cause is now I want 2months sec & one month rent etc etc..&
leases stating more complex things than before .
Not to mention the addition of when late the first month after a week withholding procedures will be sent out instead of non payment in court resulting in automatic eviction unless payment is made previous to the court date which the now 2 months security will possible hold me over until such date,its a trickle down effect that will last for years and effect generations its just that some people only care about the present.Trying to help these people out when they don't have it or waiting the extra month or two will only lead to ones demise you have to see where they came from is where they may be going back to or taking you with them unfortunate but true i would not be surprised if in the future people dont rent to people based on their spouses kids or parents history/ behaviours/ credit and such


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James Fowler
Evidence from emigration and church (Perpetual Emigrating Fund) records proves he traveled to Utah in 1862.
John R. Murdock Company (1862)Age at departure: 21
New FamilySearch/Family Tree
Perpetual Emigrating Fund Ledger Index, [1992, 2013].
- Source Location
- Church History Library, Salt Lake City
Ship Passenger and Manifest Lists/Mormon Migration
- Trail Excerpt
- Source Location
- Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Young, Joseph W., "Report of the Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 17 Sep. 1862, 93.
- Trail Excerpt
- Source Location
- Church History Library, Salt Lake City


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Installing OS X on unsupported machines. (From restore discs that came with another system)
New member here, just wanted to get something up to try and help some people with a problem that has driven me nuts for a few days now. Not really a tutorial writer, this just made sense so maybe it will help someone else who is having the same issue. This is a collaboration of efforts made by many Mac users across the Internet, I do not claim to have come up with any of these on my own, I simply want to simplify the process as it was a pain in the a** for me to stumble through it myself.
When installing OSX 10.6 on your Mac, you receive an error OS X Cannot Be Installed On This Machine. This is due to using a non-retail version of OS X meaning it was part of a restore suite that came with another system. Although the disc contains the full retail version of OS X, there is a machine verification string that takes place during startup.
This is a work around so you CAN re-install OS X on your system. NOTE* I have only tried this with the 10.6.1 disc that came with my 27 iMac, and the procedure worked installing Snow Leopard on my MacBook Core 2 Duo. This should work on any Mac running 10.5 or later as Apple changed their packages to XAR from this point on.
If you are using anything other than 10.5 or later, you will need to install Darwin Ports and perform the XAR installation using the XCODE development tools. That procedure can be found on MacRumors forum which is another attempt to perform this same procdure, howerver it didnt work for me. But the Darwin Ports method may work for someone out there so here it is...
If on 10.5 or later, please continue...
First you will need to obtain a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner below,
Download Here
I recommend using CCC as the Disk Utility in Snow Leopard sucks IMO, I tried to restore the hacked (if we are calling it that), version of the restore image and I kept getting errors about scanning the image before restore. When I scanned for restore, it gave me more errors about invalid arguments. Besides, CCC is a lot faster than anything else I have used so far.
STEP 1: Next you will need to make an image of the OS X Restore DVD. You can either use the disk utility, or CCC as I have stated its much faster for some reason and apparently a true block-level scan.
CCC is very simple to use. First select the source disk on the left, (Max OS X Install DVD), and then select New Disc Image on the right. Make sure you select read/write sparse image at the bottom so you can write your hacked distribution code back to the image when you are finished. I named my new image Custom Mac OS X Install Disc
Now sit back and wait. Depending on your drive, disc cleanliness etc, this could take a minute. Just have patience and it should complete just fine. If you get any errors during this process, its most likely due to the disc you are using being dirty or scratched.
Once the process completes, you will get a pop-up saying that it was successful and offering a donate button. If this was a simple process and you continue to use CCC in the future, which I do, I recommend donating to the authors because this is an awesome program.
The next part gets into some terminal commands. If you are uncomfortable using terminal, you probably arent the type of person to attempt this in the first place so the rest of you can continue.
STEP 2: You will need to enable hidden files to view all of the images contents. Open Terminal and type or past the following command exactly as it is shown and press enter
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True
Next type this command and press enter
Killall Finder
STEP 3: Now that we have shown hidden files and re-launched finder, we can extract the OSInstall.mpkg out of the image we previously created. You will need to mount (double click), the Custom OS X Install Disc that we made. Now open the mounted disc and you should see all of the hidden files. Navigate to the following file:
Drag the OSInstall.mpkg file to your desktop. Now create a folder on the desktop called Package.
Open terminal and type or past the following command and press enter
Cd /desktop/package
Now type this command and press enter
xar -x -v -f ~/Desktop/OSInstall.mpkg
This will extract the contents of the OSInstall.mpkg with the built in XAR utility. You should see a series of resources scroll by in finder and should be left with a file called Distribution inside the Package folder we created on the desktop.
STEP 4: Next we will right click the Distribution file, and choose to open with TextEdit. Once the file is opened, scroll down about ¾ of a page and you will come across a series of strings named hwbeSupportedMachines. As you can see, your system is most likely not listed here or you wouldnt be performing this procedure in the first place. We need to add your system to the list of support machines so it will stop freaking out during the installation process.
ON THE MAC YOU WISH TO INSTALL OS X ON: To find your Hardware ID if you dont have it, you can run the following command on the Mac you wish to install OS X on my inserting the install disc, turn on the Mac while holding down the Option Key, and selecting the OS X install disc. Once you get the normal OS X cannot be installed on this machine error, you should be able to select Terminal from the list of Utilities at the top.
Run the following command and press enter
Sysctl hw.model
This will display the Hardware ID for your machine. In my case, it gave me MacBook4,1 so this is what we will put in that hwbeSupportedMachines line in the distribution file on the other system.
After you have edited the hwbeSupportedMachines line, close the file and save the changes. We now need to inject the distribution file back into the OSInstall.mpkg. To do this, open Terminal again; make sure you are still in the desktop/package directory (cd /desktop/package), then type the following command and press enter
xar -c ./ -v -f ~/Desktop/NewOSInstall.mpkg
This should leave a file on your desktop called NewOSInstall.mpkg
Go back to the mounted Custom OS X Install DVD image, and navigate back to
This is a good time to make a copy of the old OSinstall.mpkg file and then rename the original to OSInstall.OLD
Confirm the extension change if asked and rename the NewOSInstall.mpkg on your desktop to OSInstall.mpkg, then paste the renamed file into the packages folder where the old one was located.
Now Un-mount the disc image and prepare to burn / restore it.
At this point you have a couple of options. You can burn it directly to a DL disc, but that can take even more time and you may have to try this a couple times to get it right. I opt to us a spare HDD or Thumb drive big enough to hold the 7+Gb of data. You must first format the HDD OS X Extended and make sure the portion table is set to GUID
NOTE* There are methods online to remove the printer drivers and languages to squeeze the image size down enough to fit on a 4.67Gb disc, however, I havent tested any of them to date. Maybe I will post something later when I get it figured out.
This is the part of the procedure that I originally ran into problems. I tried to restore the image back to a spare HDD using the Disk Utility in OS X 10.6.1 and I kept getting a bullsh*t error stating that This image needs to be scanned for restore. After trying the Scan for Restore option in the top menu and watching it fail, I remembered to use Carbon Copy Cloner. This method was very fast and worked perfectly for me.
Open CCC, select restore from image on the left and browse to find the Custom OS X install Disc we created. On the right column, find your USB HDD or thumbdrive and let it restore. You should get a green light on the right informing you that the image is bootable.
You can now plug in the USB HDD or Thumbdrive in the other Mac and perform the Option / Power Up sequence. This will scan the system for bootable images just like before allowing you to boot from the HDD, which should read Custom OS X Install Disc below it. You should boot up as normal, however, you should be able to move along without the OS X cannot be installed on this machine error.
Hope this works guys,


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Requires 2 AA batteries (included).
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Beginning on October 21, students will be on campus to explore the opportunities available to them here at UW-Superior. Prospective students will have the chance to tour campus facilities, meet with faculty and staff to ask some questions, and to find out more about the academic and co-curricular programs offered at UW-Superior.
The visit to campus can be a very important part of the decision making process for both the student and the parents. The CIRP, Cooperative Institutional Research Program, has been conducting the Freshman Survey since 1966. In that time, "the CIRP Freshman Survey has collected data on over 13 million students at over 1,900 institutions, and is the largest American study of higher education. The CIRP Freshman Survey is designed to provide comprehensive information on your incoming first-year students." (Higher Education research Institute)
The CIRP outlines the top 10 factors that students listed as 'very important' to them in selecting a college. One of the top 10 included a visit to campus, at 41.4% of the respondents. There are certainly areas that are more important to students including the academic reputation (63.7%), the potential for employment after graduation (56.6%), and the cost of attending (41.6%).The visit to campus is one thing that requires a small investment from faculty and staff, like showing school spirit by wearing black and gold can be a great way to show students that UW-Superior is a great place to be.
Take this opportunity on October 21, 22, and 29 to meet and talk with some prospective students and parents/guardians, it could make the difference in a student's decision! If you are looking to get more involved with Fall Preview Days, please contact Admissions.


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*Please note, this is a lightly pre-felted yarn that knits to a lightweight fabric with a felted effect. Please follow care instructions, as the yarn may felt further if washed incorrectly
Felted* Tweed DK is a wonderful, tweedy yarn with a felted look, is a beautiful blend of merino wool, alpaca and viscose.
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